Microsoft took its next step in protecting user data by making two products available for public preview under the confidential computing project. The DC-series virtual machines and Open Enclave SDK have completed private betas and are ready for public preview. The goal is to protect data in use.

Atlassian has updated the Confluence and Jira Cloud APIs to comply with Europe's GDPR privacy regulations. The company will officially retire older APIs towards the end of March 2019. For now, the Bitbucket Cloud API has not been updated but the company will make GDPR-related changes to it soon.

Four tech titans have announced the Data Transfer Project. The project is an open source, service-to-service, data portability platform. With the implementation of GDPR, and the increase need of consumers to retrieve and move their data, the Data Transfer Project looks to standardize the process.

Sgrouples Inc. features MeWe, a service dedicated to protect online privacy. In the site, users can immediately discover the number of cookies stalking from different social media providers. Some of...